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Socket Pair

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A way to uniquely specify a connection, i.e., source IP address, source port, destination IP address, destination port.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Network92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Socket Pairs
possessive
Socket Pair's
pluralpossessive
Socket Pairs'